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March 25,2015 - - - - 123,231AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST 101,699 waiting for a kidney 15,289 wait-listed for a liver 1,078 waiting for a pancreas 2,009 needing a Kidney-Pancreas 4,096 waiting for a life-saving heart 1,609 waiting for a lung 39 waiting for a heart-lung 243 waiting for small bowel One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals An average of 21 people die everyday while waiting for a transplant. You have the power to SAVE Lives by becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor, so what are you waiting for? To learn how to register click HERE

Friday, March 8, 2013

Remembering Mike Jones & His One Miracle Of Life

94.7 The Wave | Pat Prescott

Mike with his donor Patricia/photo courtesy of Mike Jones.If you regularly attend concerts and festivals here in Southern California, you probably are familiar with Mike Jones. The big guy with the freckled face and huge smile who was always up in front in the VIP section, kicking off the Cha Cha Slide or whatever line dance was happening at the time. You might have even attended Mike’s own concerts for the charity, One Miracle Celebration Of Life, he started back in 2001 after undergoing a successful kidney transplant. He visited us often at the radio station to share the moving story about how someone who had been a complete stranger to him just a year before that time, turned out to be the perfect match and was willing to give him the gift of longer life.

That transplant saved Mike’s life and took him on a journey that led him to find his birth parents and his beautiful wife and soulmate, Joy. All the while Mike touched the hearts of people across the country as he told his own personal story and educated us all about organ donation and the gift of life.Continue reading

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